Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 G Vario Aspherical MEGA OIS Lens for Micro Four Thirds Interchangeable Lens Cameras

Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 G Vario Aspherical MEGA OIS Lens for Micro Four Thirds Interchangeable Lens Cameras

Brand: Panasonic Model: H-FS100300 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 OIS Dimensions: 4.96" h x 2.89" w x 2.89" l, 1.50 pounds Aperture Lowest at 4.0 Auto-focus Mega Ois Lens

Most helpful customer ratings 49 of 52 people found this review helpful. Near the killer application for micro 4 / 3 (updated) of B. Fuller has made Panasonic a long time to reach one of the greatest strengths of the M4 / 3 is to use the 2x crop factor. Now they have done with the goal of 100-300mm. This objective is equivalent to a 200mm-600mm f / 5.6! Wow (Video Tele Extender 1:1 mode you get a 2.6x extender has a 520-1560 mm f/5.6 lens equivalent). If you check the specs, you will see the first 600 mm lens stopped faster and costs about $ 14 000 oh. This is not a typo. They also weigh 11 pounds. So they are just something you carry around. Now, ideally, Panasonic go out with a 300mm f/2.8 and f / 4. These lenses will be a great M4 / 3. However, they are larger and heavier than that. So, this lens is perfect for the daylight shooting of birds, sports, safari animals. Virtually everything you need to reach out and touch. This is the largest Panasonic M4 / 3 lenses so long and weighs 114 pounds. To give a comparison, the Nikon 70-300 mm lens weighs 1.6 pounds. Unfortunately, 4.9 "long, is not small, as I think it should be. Nikon 70-300 VR is 5.6" long so it's not much bigger, and this is a goal FX. But with that said, this is a big target with solid construction. E 'is typical of all their targets as the final step and 7-8mm Fisheye 14mm wide angle. Something to remember is this will be awkward to use on all Olympus M4 / 3 lines GF and Panasonic. This goal requires very beautiful pictures, and autofocus is very quick. Especially on GH2. The image stabilization works as advertised. Overall, if you try to take pictures of birds, your children's soccer games, or anything else that you would use a lens of 600 mm, it is the system for use on the M4 / 3 For comparison, the Olympus 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 smaller and lighter, and cover a wider area of ​​focus. However, no image stabilization as being embedded in Olympus cameras So this is not a good lens for users of Panasonic. Also, I prefer the feel of the building and Panasonic. However, this is my personal preference. Ah, the Olympus is $ 900 vs. $ 600 for the Panasonic. Update Now I had the opportunity to play with this objective in GH2 for a while, I can say that this combination is ideal for photographing wildlife. The extra GH2 has a Tele Converter (ETC), which makes this mode equivalent to a 840mm lens (Average FTE) and 1200 mm (small, etc.). When shooting in this mode to have an 8MP image and 4MP respectively. Yes, you can crop a photo to get the same increase. However, ETC selection mode is more likely to focus on ultra-sharp image on the matter. Moreover, it saves a step in your workflow and saves space on your computer. Therefore, finding ways ETC also useful for still images. As a negative aspect which actually makes your sensor smaller so it is not so useful for situations with high ISO in general, a lens and a bright light if you're looking for extra range as the M4 / 3. December 12 people found this review helpful. Not as heavy as I thought! P. Dirlam When I reached this goal, I expected that it is very heavy. I was amazed! It was hard, but does not feel as heavy as my Panasonic 14-140mm lens. One would think that it is longer than the 14-140mm would be difficult but not for me. But it does shrink a Canon 50D with a 100-400mm L lens and installation weighed over 6 pounds to 2 kilos of this setup is much easier anyway. The quality of 100-300mm lens is good. Not spectacular, but still very good. It comes in at 600 while my goal was to Canon L 640mm right. When comparing the same shot at full telephoto, not much difference and it is surprising that the quality of the images are very similar. This target cost of $ 529, while the cost of the Canon L $ 1500! I am very pleased with the results of this objective and, so far, all